CO129-556-15 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese property 22-6-1936 - 22-12-1936 — Page 13

TRANSLATION

H.M.

A. b. B.

NOTE

Sir,

From

Wai Chiao Pu to

XXXXXXXXXX AMBASSADOR

XXXXXXX NANKING.

26th October, 1956.

I have the honour to inform Your Excellency

with reference to the enforced removal by the Hong Kong

Government of the residents of Kowloon eity that I have

received a report from the Special Delegate for Kwangtung

and Kwangsi to the following effect:-

"According to an oral statement made at this

office by representatives of the residents of

Kowloon city the District Office, Southern Dis-

triet, Hong Kong, has altered the place to which

they have to remove to Ya Ch'ien Tei and has

fixed the end of the present year as the date

before which all the residents must remove, and

they accordingly request that the matter be taken

up with the appropriate authorities”.

In this connexion I have the honour to refer

to Sir Alexander Cadogan's Hote of 8th August 1985, com-

municating the contents of the reply received by him from

the Hong Kong Government. On receipt of that Note my

predecessor referred the matter to the Special Delegate

stationed in Canton and the foregoing report has now

been received.

I have the honour to observe that it is

evident that the residents in question are not yet will-

ing to accept removal within a definite time limit, and

/ that

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